Ranch wife, camp cook, cowgirl and mom, Kip Calahan also sings sweeter than a cowboy riding night watch. A resident of Southern New Mexico, she’s an ex-Coloradan who’s returned to her mother’s roots near Animas, where Calahan and her husband Richard, foreman of the famed Gray Ranch (now the Diamond A), live the life most of us just dream about. Sagebrush, tumbleweeds and roundups aren’t images borrowed from a Western movie. For Calahan, they’re part of her life and landscape. “I m

June 2004
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- In a Land of Extremes
- Cowboy Up America
- The Buffalo Hunt
- Beyond Custer Hill
- If Johnny Ringo had participated in the famous O.K. Corral gunfight, what do you think the outcome would have been?
- My favorite license plate is Wyoming’s. Can you tell me about its bucking horse logo?
- Are there real bodies buried in Tombstone, Arizona’s Boot Hill? I’ve heard the markers are fake.
- Down to the Last Moccasin
- Phippen Art Museum
- Long-Guns of the Gunfighters
- One Handsome Gun
- Forging a Road to Zion
- Texas True
- Ruxton’s Trading Post
- In the Eye of the Beholder
- Boot Scootin’ Boogie
- Donaldina Cameron
- Bombs Over Texas